Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust

Leon Bass faced racism growing up in Philadelphia, confronted it in the Army, and discovered its “ultimate” endpoint at ... Read more

When Heda Kovaly was deported from Prague to the Lodz ghetto, along with thousands of other Jews, she never imagined tha... Read more

In October 1945, Celia Kassow gave birth to her son Sam in a German displaced persons camp. Seventy-five years later, Sa... Read more

When Nazi troops seized the Polish farm where Celia Kassow was in hiding, she fled once again—this time into the forest,... Read more

When Nazi bombs fell from the sky, Celia Kassow fled her Polish boarding school and sought help from a classmate who liv... Read more

Leonard Linton's story spans half the globe—from Japan to Germany, France, New York, and back to Germany, where as a 23-... Read more

Renee Hartman was just a child when the Nazis swept into Czechoslovakia.  Her parents and sister were deaf, so she becam... Read more

Eighteen-year-old Arne Brun Lie answered the patriotic call to join the Norwegian resistance.  But instead of fighting f... Read more

After liberation from a slave labor camp, Sally Finkelstein Horwitz and her sister returned to Poland where anti-Jewish ... Read more

As a little boy, Martin Schiller was sent to a slave labor camp in Poland along with his family. Separated from his moth... Read more